FIFA World Cup: How Are World's Highest Earning Players Measuring Up?

It's the World Cup, it's the biggest stage of them all, it's where the crème de la crème battle it out in front of a worldwide television audience approaching a billion people for the sporting world's greatest prize, the Jules Rimet Trophy.

It's where the best of the best battle it out, like gladiators, to prove they truly are the greatest names ever to grace a soccer pitch!

Or at least that's meant to be the way it goes, but do the world's highest-earning players really deliver value for money on the greatest stage of them all?

Well, here's a look at who they are, and what they've achieved so far at the FIFA 2010 World Cup.

Thierry Henry

At No. 5, we find the Frenchman Thierry Henry, who earns an annual $26.48 million.

Henry has represented his country an impressive 126 times, scoring 53 goals in the process.

Henry did not feature once in the starting lineup for his country at this year's World Cup, only appearing as a substitute, and failing to add his name to the score sheet before France's dismal elimination from the tournament.